Belastok Voblast
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Belastok Voblast (Belarusian: Беластоцкая вобласць, Russian: Беластокская Область) was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the Soviet invasion of Poland and annexation of West Belarus into BSSR in November 1939. The administrative center of the province was the city of Belastok (Modern Polish city of Białystok).
The Voblast consisted of 24 raions.
After the Soviet liberation of the whole territory of Belarus in September 1944, the territory was administered by the BSSR, but according to the Polish-Soviet border treaty in August 1945 17 raions, together with 3 raions of the Brest Voblast were passed on to Poland, without its administrative centre, the remaining raions were annexed into the Hrodna Voblast.
